Science and Technology Topics for UPSC IAS | State PSC Exams 2021

  • Asteroid 16 Psyche
  • China’s Tianwen-1 probe enters the Mars Orbit
  • ISRO released Images of Uttarakhand Glacier Burst
  • HOPE: UAE’s Mars Mission
  • Russia to Launch 40 Satellites in March 2021
  • MCA21 Version 3.0 to be launched
  • World’s Largest Radio Telescope- Square Kilometre Array
  • Pakistan launched its new surface-to-surface ballistic missile ‘Ghaznavi’
  • Stardust 1.0- First rocket that runs on Biofuel
  • New Protein based Biosensors created for Quick COVID-19 test
  • SpaceX announced First All-Civilian Mission to Space
  • Jarosite: Rare Mineral Found in Antarctica
  • NASA finds the ‘Lost Galaxy’
  • SpaceX Launched 143 Satellites on Single Rocket
  • What is “Blue Jet Lightning”?
  • Europe’s Largest Solar Power Plant: Francisco Pizzaro
  • Meer KAT Radio Telescope: Two Giant Radio Galaxies discovered
  • WASP-107b: Giant Exoplanets has low core mass
  • What is Hum of the Universe?
  • Kraken Mare in Titan is 1000 feet deep
  • What is Sudden Stratospheric Warming?
  • UVIT of ISRO: Rare UV-Bright Stars spotted
  • What is Root Zone Moisture?
  • Abell 370: NASA shares picture
  • Quantum Computing Application Lab: GoI and Amazon Partnership
  • Launcher one launched by Virgin Orbit
  • Mitochondrial DNA based COVID-19 test
  • CollabCAD software
  • India-UAE MoU for Scientific and Technical Cooperation
  • ISRO to adopt 100 Atal Tinkering Labs
  • NASA to test the most powerful rocket ever built
  • GoI sets up control room to control spread of Bird Flu
  • Bird Flu outbreak in India
  • What is National Atomic Time Scale?
  • Floating Solar Energy Project
  • ISRO decade plan
  • India approved two COVID-19 vaccines for Emergency Use
  • National Metrology Conclave
  • Japan Solution for Space Debris
  • Meteorological Centre in Ladakh
  • Pneumosil: India’s First Pneumonia Vaccine
  • Portulaca laljii: New Species of Wild Sun Rose
  • India’s First Driverless Train
  • Green Propulsion Technology of ISRO
  • ISRO releases Chandrayaan-2 mission’s initial data
  • Naegleria fowleri: Brain Eating Amoeba
  • What is DigiBoxx?
  • UK’s new strain of coronavirus
  • First Potential Radio signal from Exo planet
  • Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
  • Jupiter- Saturn Great Astronomical Conjunction
  • Gateway Treaty
  • ISRO SSA Control Centre-NETRA
  • CMS-01 Satellite
  • What are Western Disturbances?
  • What is Project Loon?
  • What is Green Ammonia?
  • What are Seneca Guns?
  • What is Geminids Meteor Shower?
  • What is Vigyan Yatra?
  • What is Enigma?
  • Virgin Galactic: SpaceShip Unity Test Flight fails
  • What is Planet Nine?
  • What is Data Sonification?
  • What is Narrow Band IoT Network?
  • Harvesting Water from Air
  • What is 5G NR?
  • What is 2020 SO?
  • Arecibo Telescope: Key Facts
  • C32 LH2 Propellant tank: Key Highlights
  • Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder: Key Facts
  • What is Ethereum 2.0?
  • Dry Swab Direct RT-PCR Test Method
  • Hayabusa2 Spacecraft of Japan: Key Facts
  • Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) granted ‘Milestone’ status by IEEE – Key Facts
  • What is Brain Fingerprinting to be used on Hathras Rape Case?
  • China’s Change-5 Lunar Mission to bring back rock samples from the moon
  • NASA launches Sentinel satellite to track Earth’s sea level rise
  • Ministry of Science and Technology launches SERB-POWER
  • ISRO to launch Earth Observation Satellite EOS-1 and 9 Customer Satellites
  • NASA-ISRO to launch NISAR satellite in 2022
  • CSIR: 32% genetic variants are unique in Indian sequences
  • Low Cost Technology anti-ageing Compound developed by IIT-Guwahati
  • NASA takes Chandrayaan’s Water Discovery to a step higher
  • ISRO MOM Study: Mars losing its atmosphere at faster rate than the earth
  • National supercomputing mission: third phase to begin by January 2021
  • ICMR approves “COVIRAP” test developed by IIT Kharagpur
  • New organ in throat discovered
  • Cabinet approves India-Nigeria Space Cooperation
  • NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe to collect samples from Asteroid Bennu
  • Bepi Colombo Spacecraft reaches Mercury in its journey towards Venus
  • What is Opposition Effect that will make Mars look bigger and brighter?
  • What is INAI initiative?
  • 5,000 remote villages to receive Internet using ISRO satellites
  • European Union to sanction Russia and Belarus
  • National Supercomputing Mission: MoUs signed to make India self-Reliant
  • India to roll out FELUDA Paper strip tests for COVID-19
  • Iodic Acid drives Arctic Amplification: Key Facts, Reasons, Impacts, and Causes
  • IMD to launch Impact-based Cyclone Warning System
  • CSIR-CMERI transfers technology of community level Water Purification
  • Cabinet approves India-Japan MoU on cyber Security
  • PARAM Sidhi-AI: India’s fastest AI Super Computer
  • World Space Week, 2020: Key Facts
  • RAISE 2020, Artificial Intelligence Summit: Key Facts
  • India-France to launch Constellation of Maritime Surveillance Satellites
  • What are R-Green Kits of COVID-19?
  • NASA launches SS Kalpana Chawla Cargo Spacecraft
  • COVID-19: ICMR develops “Purified Antisera” as treatment
  • China: World’s First Asteroid Mining Robot to be launched
  • SHUKRAYAAN: ISRO to launch Venus Mission in 2025
  • India’s ASTROSAT completes five successful years of mapping stars
  • Himalayan Chandra Telescope completes successful 20 years
  • Standards for Safety Evaluation of vehicles propelled by Hydrogen Fuel Cells
  • Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor to be commissioned in 2022
  • GoI: 21 Neutrino Observatories to be set up in the country
  • FELUDA: First Gene based COVID-19 test approved in India
  • World Largest Telescope to have IT controls built in India
  • India to conduct VAIBHAV Summit
  • Scientists Found Life Harbouring Gas on Venus
  • IPFT develops new Disinfectant Sprays
  • What is ‘eSanjeevani’ telemedicine service?
  • The Portable Optical Cavity Sterilization Unit
  • Mental Health Rehabilitation Helpline ‘KIRAN’
  • Asteroid 465824
  • IIT Delhi launches ‘‘Chakr DeCoV’’ to decontaminate N95 masks

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